Michael Lipka Libros

Focusing on the intersection of genre and Greek polytheism, this work critiques modern interpretations of epiphanies and divinatory dreams, suggesting that current scholarly views may be misguided. By examining various textual genres from pagan antiquity, the author argues that the concept of 'epiphany-mindedness' among the Greeks is an academic construct rather than a historical reality, stemming from a misreading of Homer’s anthropomorphism influenced by 19th-century Christian scholarship.

The series consists of a variety of monographs from the fields of Classical Philology and Ancient History. While maintaining a broad thematic and methodological scope, the editors are especially keen on studies showing a thorough and critical engagement with the relevant literary texts and primary sources.

This work presents a new critical edition of The Spartan Constitution, a treatise in state philosophy attributed to the historian Xenophon (c. 430 - c. 355 B. C.). The Greek text, reconstructed on the basis of extant manuscript sources, is prefaced by an introduction and supplemented by a critical commentary and an English translation. The introduction discusses the problem of the text's authenticity and dating and provides a comprehensive account of its sources, reception, language, style and structure as well as an analysis of the manuscript sources and the textual tradition. The commentary addresses linguistic as well as historical problems.